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... Ramsay's lifetime. In his preface to the fourteenth edition, Ramsay wrote: Although it be acknowledged that our scots tunes have not lengthened variety of music, yet they have an agreeable gaiety and natural sweetness, that make them ...
... Ramsay's lifetime. In his preface to the fourteenth edition, Ramsay wrote: Although it be acknowledged that our scots tunes have not lengthened variety of music, yet they have an agreeable gaiety and natural sweetness, that make them ...
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... Ramsay's purpose in writing his dramatic pastoral, The Gentle Shepherd: like the older Scottish poets, he was trying to domicile European traditions in a Scottish environment. The point that Ramsay is making in this introduction — that ...
... Ramsay's purpose in writing his dramatic pastoral, The Gentle Shepherd: like the older Scottish poets, he was trying to domicile European traditions in a Scottish environment. The point that Ramsay is making in this introduction — that ...
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... Ramsay is to a considerable extent responsible. In Ramsay's original poetry we first see clearly the tradition which, for convenience, one might call the Hutcheson tradition — the tradition of a polite, non-Scottish culture in Scotland ...
... Ramsay is to a considerable extent responsible. In Ramsay's original poetry we first see clearly the tradition which, for convenience, one might call the Hutcheson tradition — the tradition of a polite, non-Scottish culture in Scotland ...
Contents
Chapter Two growth of a poet | 34 |
Chapter Three the Kilmarnock volume | 105 |
Chapter Four the omitted poems | 196 |
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